Fedora 3.3 - Call for Participation

Community contributor's page

Welcome to the community contributer's page. The intent of this page is to provide an entry point that makes it easier for community contributors to participate in the development process of the Fedora 3.3 release.

We are excited about the current scope of the release and to make it even bigger we'd like you to get involved.
Any contribution is most appreciated.
If you feel like helping out with a particular issue listed out below don't hesitate to get in contact. If you would like to contribute something that's not on the list, but you want to see addressed, you are also very welcome to contribute.

Note: We have scheduled Fedora 3.3 to be released on December 7th, 2009. Approximately one week before this date we will issue a code freeze and dedicate the remaining week
to testing and completing the documentation. Depending on the contributions we will also issue a feature freeze shortly.

What needs to be done ?

One of the biggest chunks of work currently unassigned is the completion of the REST API. The REST API should be equal to the Soap API in terms of functionality and therefore has the hightest priority among all open issues.

In order to achieve functional equality the missing methods must be implemented and open bugs fixed. The issue consists of the following unassigned subtasks:

FCREPO-544 (Complete API-A-Lite in REST API

• FCREPO-555 describeRepository 
• FCREPO-556 getDissemination 

FCREPO-545 (Complete API-M-Lite in REST API)

• FCREPO-557 upload 

FCREPO-546 (Complete API-M-SOAP in REST API)

• FCREPO-558 compareDatastreamChecksum
• FCREPO-559 addRelationship
• FCREPO-560 getRelationships
• FCREPO-561 purgeRelationship

FCREPO-522 (DSIDs can now no longer terminate in .xml and behave properly)
FCREPO-532 (Get rid of ".xml" shortcut on REST API)
FCREPO-523 (POST to /objects/pid/datastreams/dsid is counter-intuitive)
   

For a more detailed list with other issues scoped for 3.3 see the version summary page on the bug tracker.
A wiki page with all the resolved issues and release notes has been set up here .

How can you help ?

If you'd like to contribute just pick something out you might want to get involved with and submit a patch. You can also pick an issue that's already been assigned - in that case just contact the asignee. If you haven't done any development with Fedora, the page "Building Fedora from Source" should help you get started.
Then either post to the mailing list or contact one of the committers. If you haven't signed up to the mailing lists yet you may want to read the Committer's Guide page for instructions on how to subscribe.

You can also sign up for a tracker account and directly attach your contribution to the respective tracker item. If you feel like having a direct discussion over phone or just want to lurk you are always welcome to attend the weekly committer meetings.
In any case you can also contact the current release manager for Fedora 3.3, Kai Strnad, at: kai <dot> strnad <at> fiz-karlsruhe.de

Also, there's a public mailing list that gets all updates to the FCREPO issue tracker. If you're one of the people associated with an issue (the submitter, assignee, or commenter), you're automatically notified whenever the issue is updated.  You can also sign up ("Watch") specific issues from within JIRA.